Word
Trafik cezası park ihlalinden geldi.
Meaning
The traffic fine came from a parking violation.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Trafik cezası park ihlalinden geldi.
gelmek
to come
trafik cezası
a traffic fine
park ihlali
a parking violation
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Questions & Answers about Trafik cezası park ihlalinden geldi.
Why is it trafik cezası, not just trafik ceza?
Because trafik cezası is a very common Turkish noun compound pattern.
- trafik = traffic
- ceza = punishment / penalty / fine
- cezası = the form ceza takes in this compound
In Turkish, when one noun describes another noun, the second noun often gets a suffix. This is called an indefinite noun compound:
- trafik cezası = traffic fine
- otobüs durağı = bus stop
- yaz tatili = summer holiday
So trafik cezası is the normal way to say traffic fine.
Why does ihlalinden have such a long ending?
Because several pieces are stacked onto the noun:
- ihlal = violation
- ihlali = violation in the compound park ihlali = parking violation
- ihlalinden = from the parking violation / because of the parking violation
A rough breakdown is:
- park ihlali = parking violation
- park ihlali-n-den = from the parking violation
That -den part is the ablative case, which often means from, and in some contexts also because of / due to.
What exactly is the function of -den here?